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[Image: From Library of Dust by David Maisel, published by Chronicle Books]. There’s a spectacular new book coming out at the end of this summer called Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel,...
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City of Gold
Gold—the price of which has nearly quadrupled over the past decade—is now being purchased (and hoarded) on such a massive scale that the vaults of New York City have run out of space to store it all...
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At last week’s inaugural Infrastructure Observatory conference, MacroCity, archivist Rick Prelinger delivered a fantastic opening lecture looking back at the history of telephony in the Bay Area. From...
View ArticleClik here to view.
American Mine
[Image: “American Mine (Carlin, Nevada 2, 2007)” by David Maisel]. The following essay was previously published under the title “Infinite Exchange” in Black Maps by David Maisel (Steidl), as well as in...
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Abandoned Mines, Slow Printing, and the Living Metal Residue of a Post-Human...
“High in the Pyrenees Mountains,” we read, “deep in abandoned mines, scientists discovered peculiar black shells that seem to crop up of their own accord on metal surfaces.” [Image: Metal shells...
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A Model Descent
[Image: Model by SITU Studio with C&G Partners; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. The Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota, was once “the largest, deepest and most productive gold mine in North America,”...
View Article“Building with metals not from Earth”
I missed the story last month that a company called Planetary Resources had successfully 3D-printed a small model using “metals not from Earth”—that is, metal harvested from a meteorite: “Transforming...
View ArticleExotempestology
Purely in terms of extreme landscapes, this planet is certainly one of the most notable: eight times the mass of Jupiter, but starless, adrift, an “orphaned world” without a sun, “somehow shot out of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Forest Accumulator
Ten years ago, this would have been a speculative design project by Sascha Pohflepp: “hyper-accumulating” plants are being used to concentrate, and thus “mine,” valuable metals from soil. [Image:...
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